• Concerns rise as Neuralink fails to provide evidence of brain implant success, raising safety and transparency questions.

• Controversy surrounds Neuralink’s lack of data on surgical capabilities and alarming treatment of monkeys with brain implants.

• While Neuralink touts achievements, experts question true innovation and highlight developments in other brain implant projects.

  • @protist
    link
    English
    2324 months ago

    Imo Musk is going to struggle in this space. He’s no stranger to opening companies in highly regulated industries, but the medical device industry is a whole different level. The government can easily prevent him from selling anything if his company isn’t forthcoming with data, and if he starts mutilating people, civil courts aren’t going to care if they signed a waiver if that waiver was signed based on false expectations built on incomplete or false data by the company

    • @herrcaptain@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      1704 months ago

      Plus, he likes to pretend he’s an expert on the industries of the companies he runs. That’s already potentially dangerous with Tesla and Space X, but in this case his hubris is very directly dangerous to the people receiving his services.

      • TWeaK
        cake
        link
        fedilink
        English
        924 months ago

        The difference is with Tesla and Space X he has actual experts doing the work, with Neuralink he gets the worst of the crop - no successful or ethical medical professional is going to want to work with him on this.

      • @LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        62
        edit-2
        4 months ago

        Teslas are already directly dangerous to his customers but our society is numb to traffic violence so people don’t care as much as they should. But “full self-driving” has already killed people.

        Edit: removed “a lot” because while I suspect it is true, it remains unproven.

        • @Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          19
          edit-2
          4 months ago

          “full self-driving” has already killed a lot of people.

          There’s only one death linked to FSD beta and even he was driving drunk.

          In a recent interview, Rossiter said he believes that von Ohain was using Full Self-Driving, which — if true — would make his death the first known fatality involving Tesla’s most advanced driver-assistance technology

          Von Ohain and Rossiter had been drinking, and an autopsy found that von Ohain died with a blood alcohol level of 0.26 — more than three times the legal limit

          Source

          However there’s approximately 40 accidents that have led to serious injury or death due to the use of the less advanced driver assist system “autopilot”.

          • @LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
            link
            fedilink
            English
            154 months ago

            You’re right, I was conflating the two. However, I suspect there are more cases than just this one due to Tesla’s dishonesty and secrecy.

          • @evatronic@lemm.ee
            link
            fedilink
            English
            44 months ago

            (Why would the human’s inebriation level matter if the vehicle is moving autonomously?)

            • @Jrockwar@feddit.uk
              link
              fedilink
              English
              84 months ago

              Because it’s not autonomous, nor “full self driving”. It’s a glorified adaptive cruise control. I don’t think it’s even in the L3 category… (I’m not the biggest fan of the autonomy “levels” classification but it’s an ok reference for this).

            • @LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
              link
              fedilink
              English
              24 months ago

              Agreed. Also while it’s impossible to say in any individual case I suspect people might be more likely to drive while inebriated if they believe the autopilot will be driving for them.

            • @Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
              link
              fedilink
              English
              04 months ago

              This kind of thinking is why these accidents happen. The goal of autonomous driving is for it to one day be better driver than the best human driver, but this technology is still in its infancy and requires an attentive driver behind the wheel. Even Teslas tell you this when you engage these systems.

            • RedFox
              link
              fedilink
              English
              -34 months ago

              What if we compare that to human related injuries?

              I bet more people were killed by other human drivers today. Probably another right now…

              I’m not excusing lack of tech safety, but I think there’s a double standard not in context.

              • @LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
                link
                fedilink
                English
                2
                edit-2
                4 months ago

                So I hear what you’re saying—what we really want to measure is deaths avoided versus those caused. But it’s a difficult thing to measure how many people the technology saved. So while I’m cognizant of this issue, I’m not sure how to get around that. That said, the article mentions that Tesla drivers are experiencing much higher rates of collisions than other manufacturers. There could be multiple factors at play here, but I suspect the autopilot (and especially Tesla’s misleading claims around it) is among them.

                Also, while there may be an unmeasured benefit in reducing collisions, there may also be an unmeasured cost in inducing more driving. This has not been widely discussed in this debate but I think it is a big problem with self-driving technology that only gets worse as the technology improves.

                • RedFox
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  2
                  edit-2
                  4 months ago

                  Yeah, I’m hoping though it progresses to the point that we can reasonably reduce vehicle related incidents.

                  Between drunk driving, texting, and generally not paying attention, I’d love more people using automated driving if it became statistically safer.

                  Some people are scared to fly even thought it’s statistically safer. They don’t want to be the rare happening. Unless Boeing, then check your doors…

                  Edit, I also agree you can’t easily track or correlate things that didn’t happen with all the factors here.

      • Zerlyna
        link
        fedilink
        English
        184 months ago

        That didn’t work out for Elizabeth Holmes either.

        • @Tyfud@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          304 months ago

          She exploited and got rich off rich people though, like SBF, so she went down. Musk exploited and got rich off the working class and apartheid exploitation in SA. So that’s ok. He’s one of them.

      • @pigup@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        24 months ago

        Elon is a dirty manipulative liar out for power and all the money. It saddens me that there are people stupid enough to trust this guy with their bodies to let them implant a chip whose main purposed is to make him even richer.